Three players Arsenal narrowly missed out on
Over the course of their Transfer spending spree in the last decade, the Gunners have missed out on a lot of players thanks to Arsene Wenger’s reluctance at not shelling that extra fiscal ramification for a player available. The former French Economics professor values every penny and hardly shells out money to makes a rash signing, given the odd rare one, and is always confident in his belief to get the best of the squad in the very testing of times. While the Gunners have under-performed in the past eight years, considering their trophy drought, the London outfit are finally setting the pace in this Premier League Campaign.
The Gunners are currently at the summit of the table, a point ahead of frightening Manchester City, and are perhaps capable of going all the way unless their wafer thin squad is stretched to the limit. Today we here at Soccersouls decided to provide our readers with three players over the past years that the Gunners narrowly missed out. As they say, “So near, yet so far.”
3. Zlatan Ibrahimovic:
Not many people know that the PSG star was scheduled to have a trial at Arsenal when he was just a 16 year old teenager. However, Ibra allegedly told Wenger that ‘he doesn’t do trials’ after being invited to Highbury in 2000. Zlatan eventually joined Ajax, and later went on to play for Inter, Barcelona and AC Milan, winning titles at each of his destination.
Wenger, though, insists he doesn’t look back ruefully on the day the Swede got away. The Frenchman said, (Source: Daily Mail)
‘He was here at the training ground and went somewhere else. Ibrahimovic was here. It however didn’t mean not mean he would have signed for us. ‘The story is true I wanted to see him. I did not know him, you cannot sign players you have not seen at all because it is not serious. He was 16. I asked him to have a little training session with the first team and he didn’t want to do it.